Bug#278645: Installed initrd loads wrong SCSI driver on Alphastation 400 4/233
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
I installed from the debian-installer CD-ROM downloaded today. It recognised
the disks in this machine and installed fine.
But when it came to reboot it failed in the initrd with the following error:
sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
sym53c8xx: not initializing, device not supported
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o: init_module:
No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the outpSCSI subsystem
driver Revision: 1.00
ut from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o: insmod
sym53c8xx failed
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pivot_root: No sKernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
uch file or dire ctory
/sbin/init: 426: cannot open dev/console: No such file
It looks like the wrong SCSI module is being loaded. I'm not sure which one
it's supposed to be but it might be the similarly named ncr one - I can do
more investigation on this if you need to know for sure. But the installer
seemed to find the right one when it was soing its stuff so someone knows
which one was needed :-)
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